THAT Camp (Code and Gender) Monday, October 2 1:00-2:45pm IMRC 112 Despite a nationwide push to teach programming to a more diverse body of students in K-12 education, recent studies suggest women are most likely to drop out of computer science in college. Ruth Leopold’s Coders Collaborative(COCO) aims to increase the retention of women in […]
"Experimental Knowledge in the Age of Digital Humanities" Lecture by Todd Presner Todd Presner, Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles will deliver a lecture. Title of lecture TBA. Monday, October 2 3:10pm Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall The event is part of the History Department's 2017-18 […]
Whether the subject is symphonies, galaxies, or dinosaurs, immersive audio and video offer a captivating platform for educating and engrossing audiences. The 2017 Digital Humanities Week features two pioneers of such platforms, who will demo their unique systems in UMaine’s new Emera Astronomy Center and M.F. Jordan Planetarium. Dutch planetarium producer Robin Sip will demonstrate […]
